JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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azzassa
'Cause Jetstar is Qantas's cut price brand. JAL has fallen along way if it is codesharing on these flights, it would be akin to codesharing on SWest in the US.
Good business move, but it will be a shock for some of JAL's regulars.
Posted in: JAL expands codeshare with Jetstar on Kansai-Cairns route
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azzassa
newsninja I paid 300,000 yen for a Japanese lawyer near Tokyo Tower to set up my company even though I could have easily done it myself. After discovering the situation, I got the feeling that all the people in the chain, lawyer, license office, wanted to help but there seems to be no way to fix the obvious in Japan. All this being said, Japan is still the best and I would definitely like to buy an apartment in Roppongi and a beach house in Shimoda and spend half the year there. Prices are right and Japan is paradise in other ways. Coolest place to live.
Posted in: Japan: A paradise for entrepreneurs
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azzassa
ironchef, google kicks ass. im with you there. but the reason they told the gov to take a hike was because they were hacked and part of their algorithm was stolen and youtube was blocked to youku could make money. if that happened to me, i would do the same. it wasn't because the breathing down the neck thing so much. what they went through was tough. and their reaction was perfect. i hope the world knows that there are companies out there who care. google forever
Posted in: Japan: A paradise for entrepreneurs
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azzassa
i think people read between the lines quite a bit. i had two businesses in japan. one reasonably successful. profit approximately 1M yen month. but the environment was no where near paradise. silicon valley is the closest thing i know of.
Japan is a lovely country with very nice people but they don't trust or even understand entrepreneurs. Guys like Akio Morita and Shoichiro Honda were the reason I moved to Japan in the first place. But no one seems to understand that they were what made Japan great. They think the salaryman did it: risk, entrepreneurship, brazen attitude, no fear, the walkman, and world class manufacturing made Japan. I hope Japan goes back to its roots.
Posted in: Japan: A paradise for entrepreneurs
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azzassa
what is this guy talking about? japan hates entrepreneurs. does everything it can to destroy them. ever try to get a visa on your own small, non english teaching company? I did. guess what? bend over my friend. then you want a loan? haaaahaha. and guess what? we should have told you before but as you don't have a license now, you cannot get one now as you have a company that is already running (1 day old) and has no profits. so no license. if you would have applied before the company was founded. well then ok, it would have been ok. all these things happened to me. i love japan. but as an entrepreneur i had to leave. now im in china and its pretty easy. none of the crazy stuff i went through in japan. i still love japan. want to go back but being an entrepreneur is the loneliest thing you can ever do there. if you just do as you're told and teach english, everything is easy.
Posted in: Japan: A paradise for entrepreneurs
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azzassa
I like buriburi burikko. Kawaii jyan
Posted in: Yuko's style
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azzassa
Elephants were listed and restricted by CITES and have begun to recover.
Surely Japan can see that arguing "let the RFMOs manage the stock" is not going to work as the RFMOs have been woefully inadequate with past regulation of stocks.
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azzassa
...and central government's fiscal condition is any better??,
Geez these local politicians really take the cake, Maybe if local Government in Japan lived within its own budgets rather than running off to Tokyo whenever they wanted to build their next grandiose public work, there might actually be more support for such redevelopment.
Rather than claiming that
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azzassa
I totally sympathize with these sweet girls. When I see someones feet all beat up from wearing heels at work, I feel terrible. The girls at 109 are lovely. Like little diplomats too. People gawk, take pictures all day. It's a full on tourist attraction these days. I have been going there forever. It's changed since Nike and the other foreign designers started taking pictures to copy designs. Not to mention strange dudes taking videos under the mistaken impression that they are cool. I think they are total angels. Always nice, super attractive. I hope you all find a happy life and whatever you are looking for.
Posted in: Fashion boutique salesgirls slave under sordid conditions
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azzassa
All Car Companies should have came forward with a full disclosures of what car were dangerous. Instead of waiting for a huge media blitz and tons of public pressure. I never seen so many car companies GM - NISSAN - TOYOTA - HYUNDAI having recalls all at the same time. I had no idea my car was affected until I looked on http://www.carpedalrecall.com and found I had a bad Anti Lock control unit on my 2008 Pontiac G8 , my co workers Ford Truck had a recall also. So be careful
Posted in: Toyota Prius top-selling car in Japan despite recall woes
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azzassa
If they are interested in torture, I'm sure there are folk ready to help them out.
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azzassa
so this guy hitchhikes around Japan and he is "chasing the cherry blossoms"? Instead of hitchhiking around Japan for fun? He is a great man. I cannot imagine the deep insights he gets while waiting on a freezing night in a cloud of diesel. None of us can imagine the deep insights into Japanese culture he gets getting picked up by truckers and cleaning under his arms in a "service area".
Posted in: Chasing the cherry blossoms
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azzassa
stick your rifle deep in there soldier. gonna be late night jokes till the end of time
Posted in: Top U.S. Army, Air Force warn against lifting gay ban too quickly
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azzassa
C'mon you guys. China is a huge country. 12 times the number of people. Japanese being concerned about them buying crown jewels and property is a serious thing. About Japanese names, China recently took a famous video game out of the hands of a Japanese company saying its a "national treasure". As Japan, and no sane country except China and France, control these types of things, it's quite normal to be worried. China is aggressively buying Japan. Japan is a smaller country with few natural resources. China is pushing Japan out of traditional fields like acupuncture. It's damn scary place. Wake up people.
Posted in: Magazine airs anxieties over China's burgeoning economic clout
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azzassa
Mao is marvelous!
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azzassa
Min wage in Hyogo is 721 en/hr
4 kids @ 10hr each dishwashing will have that debt cleared up and a bit of extra as punishment
Posted in: Stuffed teenage girls arrested for trying to eat and run at restaurant
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azzassa
This lawsuit is a great opportunity to air some of Toyota's dirty laundry. And you are gonna be shocked at how dirty it is.
Posted in: Japanese ask: Is U.S. backlash on Toyota a ploy to boost American auto producers?
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azzassa
Total hogwash. Toyota gets some bad press and its protectionism? WTF? Have you been reading the newspapers in the US for the last 40 years?!? Nothing but bad about American car companies. Stupid, don't listen, cheap, too many defects, recalls, endlessly telling the urban myth of the guy who found a beer can inside his GM door. Toyota has always had recalls, defects, especially in Japan but because Japan was nationalistic,like China is now, in the 70's-80's when the worst of the defects happened, there were never reported much in Japan. And certainly never even heard at all in the US. American consumers were brought up thinking they were perfect, treated all their workers perfectly, (while many died of karoshi) and gonna save the world with the prius. The Prius has a very very bad ecological record due to its huge battery that must be disposed of. Even tiny batteries are terrible for the environment. Poison. But somehow we only read about good things regarding Toyota. I personally like Toyota but this recall is serious. They have been covering things up for years in Japan. Now its out in the open that Toyota is a regular company. Trying to make money. Squeezing suppliers to the last drop. Not paying overtime. Treating Brazilians terribly. Toyota outsources all its bad stuff to its suppliers like all the Japanese MNC's. So it cant be traced back so easily. Get used to it. Toyota has been covering up defects in Japan since its inception. Now it gets caught with its pants down overseas. No big deal.
Posted in: Japanese ask: Is U.S. backlash on Toyota a ploy to boost American auto producers?
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azzassa
Aguilera's idea?
Hardly.
http://imgur.com/BHBsv.jpg
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azzassa
Let's ask Steve Jobs how impressed he is with his rivals. Like Google's Nexus One... I'm sure we will hear an unbiased answer. Or how about asking Sony and Samsung's new flat screen TV's? Sure we will get the straight scoop.
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